The Wife and Husband equally conspire, To work by Night and rake the Winter fire: He sharpens Torches in the glim'ring Room, She shoots the flying Shuttle through the Loom: Or boils in Kettles Must of Wine, and Skins With leaves, the Dregs that overflow the Brims. The Works of Vigil:...

22 December, 2020 /

And how Death is that remedy all singers dream of, sing, remember, prophesy as in the Hebrew Anthem, or the Buddhist Book of Answers—and my own imagination of a withered leaf—at dawn— Dreaming back thru life, Your time—and mine accelerating toward Apocalypse, the final moment—the flower burning in the...

27 April, 2020 /

  The decent and loyal people of America, Caught by their own loyalty, fouled, gouged and bled To feed the power-hunger of politicians and make trick fortunes For swindlers and collaborators. Caught by their own loyalty, fouled, gouged and bled To feed the power-hunger of politicians and make trick fortunes For swindlers...

13 April, 2020 /

In Spring 2019 students from Spanish 3070 Literary Analysis attended the Rare Books Classroom to consider the physical aspects of literary texts and to decipher first-hand the impact of examining a book and text as physical object. The viewing offered students a chance to see...

16 May, 2019 /

"Deliver us from fear and favor; from mean hopes and cheap pleasures. Have mercy on each in his deficiency; let him not be cast down; support the stumbling on the way, and give at last rest to the weary." -- Robert Louis Stevenson Prayers Written at...

03 December, 2018 /

“No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic agents, its yeast. But revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track mind, geniuses in their ability to...

23 October, 2018 /

Take heed of loving mee, At least remember I forbade it thee; Not that I shall repaire my unthrifty wast Of Breath and Blood, upon thy sighes and teares, By being to thee then what to me thou wast; But so, great Joy, our life at once outweares; Then, lest thy...

16 February, 2018 /